MINUSMA Photo/Marco Dormino
Serve and protect to
build peace and security
ou are the backbone of your country. You are the
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backbone of the rule of law and good governance.
Some people often say that police officers are like
the stick of an old man; when people are weak to
walk, when people are faced with difficulties.
Ban Ki-moon
United Nations Secretary-General
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
You will be the first ones and the last persons your
people will depend on when it comes to safety
and security, when it comes to social stability and
security. […] When there is disorder, confusion, insecurity, you are the brighter future.
police deployed in
missions
Of 1,416 women,
669 are in Formed Police Units
and 741 are individually deployed.
Restoring Law and Order
Conflict and post-conflict countries are often characterized by a collapse of public law and order. United Nations
Police serves to protect civilians, provides electoral and border security and management, limits the effects of
transnational organized crime and investigates and prevents cases of sexual and gender-based violence. By contributing to restore public confidence in the host-State police and rule of law structures, United Nations Police
creates safer environments. The United Nations commenced deploying police personnel in 1960. Currently, close
to 14,000 United Nations Police are working in 12 peacekeeping operations and 5 special political missions, as
well as other post-conflict and crisis situations.
The Police Division supports police components of United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions
and other non-mission settings in the implementation of their mandated tasks. Housed in the Office of Rule of
Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Police Division selects, recruits,
deploys and rotates personnel in Missions, creates policy and guidance and defines parameters of international
police peacekeeping and provides strategic and operational support, including through the Standing Police Capacity and by facilitating assessments and evaluations.
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Hervé Ladsous
Under-Secretary-General
for Peacekeeping Operations
UNMAS Photo/Gwenn Dubourthoumieu/ Democratic Republic of the Congo
United Nations Police has seen an unprecedented growth in recent
years… The changing nature of security and evolving threats call for
a more sophisticated capacity… I would like to pay strong tribute to
them [UN Police] for their courage and imagination.
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UNMISS: Engaging communities
to build a protective environment
Since late 2013, South Sudan has been caught in the grip of a crisis defined by horrendous violence, massive
displacement and the threat of famine. One in seven people have been forced from their homes and 1.3 million
remain displaced.
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Over 180,000 people reside in UNMISS protection sites, where United Nations Police maintain public safety and
security. One of the activities is to engage communities and build confidence through a protective environment.
The photo to the right, for example, shows police officers of the Gender, Child and Vulnerable Persons Protection
(GCVPP) Unit engaging children at the temporary learning space of a protection of civilians site in Juba, in July
2015.
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As part of a mission-wide protection of civilians approach in South Sudan, United Nations Police implements
a community policing strategy which involves the South Sudan National Police Service and community watch
groups building confidence within displaced populations.
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UNMAS Photo/Gaza
Ultimately, we hope that we will have a greater, stronger and more
flexible pool of professionals serving under the UN flag and helping
revive societies torn by conflict.
Dmitry Titov
Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions
Department of Peacekeeping Operations
UNMAS Photo/Gwenn Dubourthoumieu/ Democratic Republic of the Congo
he Strategic Guidance Framework, or SGF, will lay the foundation
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for a new era of police peacekeeping. Why do we need it? Because
UN policing differs from domestic policing. The development of the
Strategic Guidance Framework is projecting a clear and crystallized vision of UNPOL’s roles and tasks. In addition, Member States will know
what skill sets the UN requires and what experience they can expect
their seconded officers to bring back from an UNPOL operation.
MINUSCA Photo/Catianne Tijerina
ACTUAL / AUTHORIZED / FEMALE DEPLOYMENT OF UN
FPU
MINUSMA
Mali
UNSMIL
Libya
0
1,062
0
2,551
12
1,440
15
252
0
57
0
MINUSTAH
Haiti
MINURSO
Western Sahara
2,500
FPU
UNIOGBIS
Guinea-Bissau
11
16
1
DPA missions
DPKO missions
Actual
Authorized
Female
FPU
Includes Formed
Police Units
FPU
UNMIL
Liberia
FPU
UNOCI
Côte d’Ivoire
FPU
MONUSCO
D. R. Congo
1,318
1,441
1,197
1,515
1,500
1,441
219
53
160
POLICE IN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS (DECEMBER 2015)
UNMIK
Kosovo
UNFICYP
Cyprus
UNAMI
Iraq
UNAMA
Afghanistan
8
54
0
4
8
69
4
6
3
9
0
1
FPU
UNMISS
South Sudan
TOTAL UN POLICE
1,143
1,323
205
FPU
UNAMID
Darfur (Sudan)
UNSOM
Somalia
UNISFA
Abyei
13,874
1,983
3,120
12
21
2,080
14
50
15,447
3,403
152
297
4
3
MINUSCA
CAR
FPU
1,416
Responding to Member States and the Secretary-General
United Nations Police receives guidance and strategic direction from the General Assembly and the Security Council.
The General Assembly’s Special Committee on United Nations Peacekeeping (C-34) is the [only] United Nations forum mandated to review comprehensively the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects, including policing. It has supported major reform efforts, including the establishment of the Standing Police Capacity, and
continues to promote partnerships including with regional and sub-regional organisations. The C-34 attaches great
importance to timely substantive interactions between the Security Council, the Secretariat and police contributing
countries, to devise clear, unambiguous and achievable mandates, and to generate the necessary political, human,
financial and logistical resources and information capacity for achieving the mandates (A/69/19, paras 20 and 74).
The first Security Council resolution dedicated to international policing, adopted unanimously on 20 November
2014, stipulates that policing is an integral part of the mandates of United Nations peacekeeping operations and
special political missions, which may include support for the reform, restructuring and development of host State policing and other law enforcement institutions, operational support to host-State policing and other law enforcement
institutions, and conducting interim policing and other law enforcement (S/RES/2185).
Upon request of the UN Secretary-General, the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations presented its
report on how United Nations peace operations can be made more effective, efficient and responsive in June 2015
(A/70/95). In his implementation report, the Secretary-General welcomed the progress on the Strategic Guidance
Framework, took note of the work on new modalities for planning and recruitment and tasked the Police Division to
initiate an external review of its future function, structure and capacity (A/70/357, para 93). An independent review
team began work in early 2016. Its report will feed into the Secretary-General’s report on UN Police, due by December 2016.
UN Photo/Marc Vaillant/Mali
First Security Council briefing by Heads of UN Police Components, 20 November 2014. (UN Photo)
Policing must be entrusted to police or other law enforcement agencies of a national, regional or local government,
within a legal framework that is based on the rule of law.
[Thus, the] police are accountable to laws that are publicly
promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated and which are consistent with international human
rights norms and standards.
Stefan Feller
United Nations Police Adviser
UN Photo/Annika Hansen
UN Photo/Marc Charron
All-female selection assistance and
assessment team (SAAT) training
The United Nations launched a global effort to increase the representation of female police officers in United
Nations peacekeeping operations and special political missions in 2009. This was reinforced by Security Council
Resolution 2242 (2015) on Women, Peace and Security. One of the projects undertaken by the Police Division
in this regard is the all-female selection assistance and assessment team (SAAT) training. The training familiarises
and prepares female police officers with the assessment procedures they require to pass before deploying as
United Nations Police.
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17 Member States showed a strong interest and nominated 2,300 female officers for participation in the allfemale SAAT Training. Since the project began in 2014, 555 female officers participated in in training sessions
convened in Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Niger and Rwanda by serving UN Police officers. As a result, 304 of
the 555 officers passed the mandatory SAAT examination and are now eligible to deploy, while 174 female officers already deployed to serve with United Nations Police.
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UN Police Contributing Countries (December 2015)
COUNTRY
MALE
FEMALE
TOTAL
COUNTRY
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Benin
Bhutan
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Chad
Chile
People's Rep of China
Colombia
Congo
D.R.Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
18
8
0
1,005
362
4
29
7
0
314
358
329
65
43
6
161
15
131
117
142
450
1
2
1
167
11
1
9
0
1
56
19
63
19
3
0
8
1
8
18
0
0
19
10
1
1,172
373
5
38
7
1
370
377
392
84
46
6
169
16
139
135
142
450
El Salvador
Ethiopia
Fiji
France
Gambia
Germany
Ghana
Grenada
Guinea
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Jordan
Kenya
Kyrgizstan
Lithuania
Madagascar
Malawi
MALE
FEMALE
TOTAL
12
31
17
30
56
28
218
2
37
1
894
170
10
1
2
1,524
29
9
1
37
46
0
1
0
3
20
7
95
0
5
0
115
3
2
0
0
7
10
2
0
8
44
12
32
17
33
76
35
313
2
42
1
1,009
173
12
1
2
1,531
39
11
1
45
90
Top ten police contributing countries (PCCs)
COUNTRY
Malaysia
Mali
Mauritania
Montenegro
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Republic of Korea
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Samoa
Senegal
Serbia
MALE
FEMALE
TOTAL
COUNTRY
15
94
280
3
34
885
20
139
313
23
469
1
27
3
2
52
9
711
8
1,339
8
0
6
0
1
18
88
5
20
83
11
0
0
1
0
1
9
4
225
2
39
0
15
100
280
4
52
973
25
159
396
34
469
1
28
3
3
61
13
936
10
1,378
8
Sierra Leone
Slovakia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Togo
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
UK
Ukraine
United Rep. of Tanzania
USA
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
MALE
FEMALE
TOTAL
30
7
6
51
14
3
8
352
162
74
38
2
45
56
35
5
13
225
102
48
3
0
4
18
0
8
17
7
3
6
3
5
10
4
0
0
0
20
78
10
6
55
32
3
16
369
169
77
44
5
50
66
39
5
13
225
122
55
31
86
UN Police Division Timeline
1948
1960
1962-1963
1964
1964-1989
Secretary-General
Trygve Lie suggests
establishment of
UN Police Service.
UN Police deployed
for first time to
United Nations
Mission in the Congo.
UN Police experts
carry out law
enforcement in
West New Guinea.
UN Police
deployed
to Cyprus
Seven new
peacekeeping
operations deployed;
small role for
UN Police
2002
2005
2006
2007
2012
UN Police deployed
to Liberia.
CIVPOL (Civilian
Police) changes
name to UN Police
(UNPOL).
UN Member
States approve
establishment
of the Standing
Police Capacity.
6,432 UN and
African Union
Police authorized
for work in
UN Mission
in Darfur
14,500 UN Police
deployed. More than
16,000 authorized
for deployment
1989
1992-1993
1995-2002
1999
1,500 UN Police
deployed to Namibia.
3,600 UN Police
deployed to
Cambodia.
2,000 UN Police make
up International Police
Task Force in Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
UN Police have law
enforcement mandate in
UN Mission in Kosovo.
Formed police units
authorized and deployed.
2013
2014
2015
2016
UN Police Multi-year
Strategy Policy: 2020 finalized.
Security Council
resolution 2184
on United Nations
policing adopted.
High-level Independent Panel
on Peace Operations and SG
implementation report.
Independent review of
Police Division and SG report
on UN Police.
Second phase of Strategic
Guidance Framework largely
completed.
Third phase of Strategic
Guidance Framework launched.
First phase of Strategic Guidance
Framework for International
Police Peacekeeping completed.
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